But what happens when the store is empty and the table is bare?

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Dead center was a long table, surrounded by approximately twenty chairs, and, on the table, empty and half-empty cups, a few books, class logs, and some pamphlets.

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At lunchtime, Critzer and her coaches sat down at a table in the empty school library.

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It is far easier to overlook the death of loved ones when you don't have to stare across the holiday table at their empty places.

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The empty seat at the dinner table.

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Dad wove his fingers together and set them, like an empty basket, on the table.

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You have all the empty suits that are bringing anything to the table that they can.

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Hyeonduk Seunim gestured us into a spare, empty room with a low table at the centre.

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One night I dreamed of an angel: I walked into a huge, empty bar and saw him sitting in a corner with his elbows on the table and a cup of milky coffee in front of him.

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The table, which had looked so pristine, was strewn with a wreckage of empty bottles and ashtrays and plastic cups.

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By the time I went to sit down, there were only three empty seats left at this very long table of perhaps sixty people.

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